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Joe Lemyre
Lion Cops 167 Pound Crown;
Dick Lemyre Places 3d at 130
Always at his best in tournaments, Joe Lemyre upset the "smart
guys" once again to win the I'TCAA 167 pound wrestling champion
ship and earn himself a permanent niche in Penn State's wrestling
hail of fame.
With four clearcut, almost runaway, victories in the National
Collegiate Athletic Association tourney held over the weekend in
Fort Collins, Col., Joe added a na
tional title to his EIWA cham
pionship won two weeks ago.
Joe thus became the second
Penn Stater in Nittany history to
score a double by winning the
EIWA's and NCAA's.
Only Red Johnston, oddly
enough in the same 165 weight
category, had ever won a NCAA
title (1935). Charlie Ridenour, .123
pounder and three times EIWA
champ, twice won the National
AAU championships bu t never
won in the National Collegiates.
Parke Isbock, the only other Nit
tany to win a national mat title,
copped a National YMCA crown
in 1936.
lowa State 2d
Led by Joe's six points for a
championship, Penn State's three
man representatives of the EIWA
champion Lions wound up in fifth
place in the team standings.
lowa State Teachers made a
spirited attempt to wre s t the
team championship from the dom
inating clutches of the Sooner
state, but Oklahoma successfully
defended the title with its, second
straight one-point victory mar
gin, 22-21. Oklahoma A&M fin
ished in third place with 20 points
and Toledo, Ohio, took fourth
with 10 points.
Dick Lemyre Falls
Only Oklahoma A&M's George
Layman retained his individual
title at 137 pounds while two
time EIWA champion Brad Glass
was dethroned of his National
crown in suffering the first defeat
of his college career.
State's crack sophomore, Dick
Lemyre, also fell from the ranks
of the unbeaten collegians when
he dropped a semi-final bout at
130 pounds to lowa Teachers' new
champion, Gene Lybbert, 14-8.
•
McCarron Tops Homan
Dick, unbeaten since his high
school defeat at th e hands of
State's former great, Charlie Rid
enour, went on to win two con
solation bouts to give him third
place and the Lions' two more
points.
Coach Charlie Speidel's other
NCAA entrant , Bob Hainan,
dropped a first round match to
lowa Teacher's Jim McCarron.
Bob recovered from an ear ly
slipup to assume command and
ride his man for the final period
but it was too late.
Beats Sonneman
En route to his NCAA cham
pionship, Joe Lemyre had little
trouble as he won all four matches
by four points or better.
Joe opened with a first round
win over Cornell of lowa's War
ren Sonneman, 6-0, then took a
, 13-7 decision from Waynesburg's
Ralph Schneider.
Reverse artist Joe rolled on with
a 8-3 quarter final win over lowa's
Don Heaton and then hung a 6-0
loss on Michigan State's Big Ten
champion Orris (Pete) Bender to
bring back the 167 laurels to Penn
State.
Peery Cops Ciown
For younger brother Dick, his
loss to the eventual champion
Lybbert was his first since his
high school junior year. With
much of his strength drawn by a
rugged quarter-final 8-6 win over
Oklahoma A&M's Don Meeker,
Dick couldn't cope with the cham
pion to be.
The East's only two other cham
pions were Pitt's Hugh .Peery at
115 pounds and Toledo's Harry
Lan z i, 191 pounds. Sophomore
Peery's only loss of the season,
came at the hands of State's EIWA
champ Homan. 4-2, in the dual
season at 123 pounds.
Other individual championships
were won by Billy Borders, Ok
lahoma, 123; Clarence Weick,
lowa Teachers, 157; Bently Lyon,
California, 177; Gene Nicks, Ok
lahoma A&M, unlimited; and the
meet's outstanding wrestler, Tom
Evans, Oklahoma, 147.
Niftany Bouts
123—80 b Homan lost to Jim McCarron,
lowa STC, 6.5.
130—Dick Lcmyre beat Merle Dunn, Min
ois, 8-2.
130—Dick Lemyre (quarter-final) heat
Don Meeker, Oklahoma A&M, 8-6.
130—Dick Lemyre, semi-final) lost to Gene
Lybbert. lowa STC, 14-8.
130—Dick Lemyre (consolation) beat Phil
Duggan, lowa, 6-5.
By JAKE HIGHTON
Lions' National Champ
Joe Lemyre
Is Week's
Top Athlete
Overshadowed all season long
by a sensational sophomore broth
er, Joe Lemyre, in winning a
NCAA. championship, accomplish
ed what everyone thought his
brother Dick could do but which
he was conceded little chance to
achieve.
For his outstanding and rare
feat in Nittany wrestling history,
Joe has been chosen "Athlete of
the Week" by the Collegian sports
staff.
Joe's NCAA title winning ef
fort has been matched by only
one other Penn Stater and is
something such Lion mat stal
walts as Charlie Ridenour, Harry
Light, Homer Barr and Jim Maur
ey have failed to do in NCAA
championship matches over the
past 22 years.
Fornicola
Wins YMCA
Championship
Larry Fornicola, early season
first team 137 pounder for Penn
State's EIWA champion mat team,
won the Pennsylvania St ate
YMCA 137 pound championship
Saturday in Harrisburg.
Fornicola's 11-2 decision victory
helped, Bellefonte YMCA to a sec
mid straight title. Ken Moyer, 123,
and Dave Adams, 130, also won
for the Bellefonters.
Penn State starting hea v y
weight Lynn Illingworth wa s
leadi n g in the heavyweight
championship when a recurrence
of his rib injury caused him to
default.
Nittany Bill Shawley finished
runnerup for Bellefonte at 177;
Penn State 157 poun de r Bill
Krebs lost in the semi-finals for
Bellefonte; and Nittany Doug
Cassel finished runnerup for Har
risburg at 423.
Jim Schulte Elected '53
Head Boxing Manager
Jim Schulte, a sixth semester
engineering student, was recently
named - next year's head boxing
manager.
He succeeds Jim Wharton..•
Walter Hall is the alternate,
while Howard Abrams, George
Richards, and Rudy Kohn were
named first assistants.
130—Dick Lemyre (3rd place bout) beat
Lew Wagner, Waynesburg, 3-2.
167—Joe Lemyre beat Warren Sonneman,
Cornell of lowa, 6-0.
167—Joe Lemyre (quarter-final) beat Ralph
Schneider, Waynesburg, 13-7.
167—Joe Lemyre (semi-final) beat Don
Heaton, lowa, 8-3.
167—Joe Lemyre (championship) beat Pete
Bender, Michigan State, 6-0.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Joe -Lemyre
Wins NCAA Title
Peoria Five
Routs Oilers
By 64-50
NEW YORK, March' 31—(iP)—
The National AAU champion Pe
oria Caterpillars broke the game
wide-open with, a ten-point rally
in the third period and trounced
the Phillips Oilers of Bartlesville,
Okla., 64-50 ; tonight to qualify
for the •U.S. Olympic basketball
team.
By winning tonight's semi-final
tryout test before a crowd of
about 10,000 at Madison Square
Gar den, the Caterpillars won
seven places on the American
team that will invade Helsinki
this summer.
The other seven players will
come from the winner of the sec-
BULLETIN
Kansas 70, LaSalle 65
ond' game on tonight's double
header program—the "dream bat
tle" between Kansa s' NCAA
champions and La Salle's. dark
horse National. Invitation Tourn
ament titlists.
After a rough and tumble first
half in which the score was tied
nine times the- Caterpillars, went
on a scoring binge in the first
four minutes of the third period
to break the game open.
Ahead 33-29 at intermission,
they increased • their margin, to
43-30 with a series of brilliantly
executed plays and the Oilers,
who represented Uncle Sam in
the 1948 Olympics, were never in
it after that.
The game was virtually clinched
for the Caterpillars when Bob
Kurland, the seven-foot giant
center of the Bartlesville, Okla.,
team who was double and triple
teamed- all night, went out on per
sonal fouls at the 12:50 point of
the last half.
6 Teams Cop
First Victories
In WRA Action
WRA opened its intramural
league playoffs last night in
White Hall with six 'teams win
ning victories in bowling, volley
ball, .and badminton.
In bowling, Phi Mu won over
Chi Omega, 1076-890. Alpha Xi
Delta beat Delta Gamma in vol
leyball, 36-32. Kappa Kappa
Gamma defeated Phi 10, Alpha
Xi Delta beat Zeta Tau Alpha,
Alpha Gamma Delta won , over
McAllister H a 11, and Atherton
East beat Theta Phi Alpha.
There will be a meeting tonight
of all ping pong players who have
signed up for the All-College tour
naments in ping pong, at s'p.m. in
the WRA room at White Hall.
The volleyball playoffs start at
6:30, with Simmons meeting Al
-Ipha Xi Delta; at 7:15 Kappa • Al
pha Theta plays Alpha Epsilon
Phi, and Theta Alpha Phi meets
McAllister Hall. At 8 pan. Alpha
Gamma Delta meets Atherton
East in the badminton playoffs,
and Kappa Kappa Gamma op
poses Alpha Xi Delta. Alpha
Gamma Delta bowls against Mc-
Allister Hall at 6':30 p.m.
Carter Risks
Boxing Crown
LOS ANGELES, March 31—(PE')
—Jimmy Carter risks his world's
lightweight boxing title for, the
second time tomorrow night when
he fights Lauro Salas, the Cali
fornia featherweight king who
calls Monterrey, Mex., home.
Jimmy, , the Cinderella champ--
ion from New York with a quick
smile and equally rapid punch,
rates the solid choice to whip . his
lighter foe in the scheduled 15-
rounder.
However, Salas, a surprise
choice whose scarred brows be
speak more than five years, of
ring warfare, figures he has a
chance to pull an upset. Should
he do it, he'd become the 'first
native of IVlexico to hold an un
disputed title.
Midfield Big Problem
For Lacrosse Team
As midfielders Jack Wilcox, and Paul Raffensperger went last
year, so went the Penn State lacrosse team. '
With this thought in mind, lacrOsse Coach Nick Thi'el, starting
his 18th year as Penn State coach, is looking for two men to re
place Wilcox and Raffensperger, who 'were graduated. ,
State will open its 40th season of intercollegiate lacrosse" April
10 at Loyola (Baltimoke) and. Thiel
will undoubtedly miss the eight
goals Wilcox and Raffensperger
scored against Loyola last year
even though the Lions lost, 14-12.
Of the 101 goals State scored
in nine contests last year, this
dud accounted for 41 of them;
Wilcox getting 21 and Baffy 20.
Both totals were good enough to
break the old record of 18 set by
Cliff Sullivan in 1946.
Lout Fulton
Lion Trackmen
Continue Drills
For 'Relays
With one week of practice un
der their belts, Coach Chick Wer
ner's Lion trackmen continue to
lay the groundwork on the Beaver
Field oval in preparation for the
Penn Relays later this month.
With only a limited number of
non-tested material to work with,
Coach Werner's main concentra
tion is centered around the four
mile relay team.
Last season the Penn State four
mile quartet won the event in
championship style. The Nittany
foursome of -Bob Parsons, Bob
Freebairn, and the Ashenfelter
br o t Ire rs, Don and Bill, was
clocked in the fast time of 17:24.6,
erasing the Lion record of 17:30.7
set in '4B by Shuman, Karver,
Williams, and Horace Ash.
The Nittany thinclads have won
the Penn Relay four mile event
four out of , the last five years,
but in as much as not one mn
is left from last season's record
breaking group, Werner's chances
of duplicating his previous feats
remain a big question mark.
Some of the leading candidates
for this year's combination in
clude Jack Homer, Lamont Smith,
Lloyd Slogan, John Chilrud, Bob
Roessler, Bob Gehman, Don Aus
tin, John Blood, Tom Demboski,
and Allen Terill. "Although there
isn't a veteran in the bunch, it
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Heart Attack
Fatal to Coach
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March
31—(W)—Alvin N. (Bo) McMillin,
who coached four college and two
professional football teams after
calling the signals for Centre col
lege's "Prayin' Colonels" of 30
years ago, died today. He was 57.
His 35-yard touchodwn run in
1921 for Centre College's "Pray
in' Colonels" -inflicted Harvard's
first defeat
,in six years. He was
Walter Camp's All-A mer i c a
quarterback of 1919.
McMillin coached Indiana Uni
versity to its only Western Con
ference football championship in
1945 after successful coaching ca
reers at Kansas State, Geneva
College of Pennsylvania and Cen
tenary College of Louisiana. The
'1945 team was undefeated.
111 Wrestling Finals
Scheduled for Thursday
The finals of the intramur
al wrestling tournament will
be held Thursday night instead
of tomorrow night, Dutc 12
Sykes, assistant IM director,
announced• yester da y. Th e
bouts will start at 8 p.m.
The volleyball games sched
uled for Thursday night will be
played Tuesday, MAY 6. The
changes ih,the IM schedule are
due to the lEC Greek' Week
program. ,
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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, , 1952
By TOM SAYLOR
In addition to his record break
ing 21-goal t o t.a 1, Wilcox was
named to the North squad in the
annual North-South AII-Star
game. Raffensperger was named
to• the All-Pennsylvania team.
Besides Wilcox and Raffen
sperger, *ate also lost Al Fulton,
who was drafted into the Army
last summer, Bill, Forrest and Ja
son Stone, both who were grad
uated.
Thiel has some consolation,
however, in that lie has foqr re
turning lettermen at that- posi
tion, including Captain Bud Wol
fram, who, even though he stands
just five feet seven inches tall
and weighs a mere 130 pounds,
is one of State's scrappiest players.
Besides Wolfram, a senior, State
has junior Wayne Hockersmith
and seniors Tony Eagle and John
Yohman.
Wolfram teamed up with Wil-
Cox and , Fulton last year to make
up the first, midfield trio while
Hockersrnith and Eagle played
along • side- of Raffensperger to
make . 4p the second.
2d Midfield Green
With Wilcox and Raffensperger
gone, Thiel has moved Hecker
smith and Yohman into the start
ing threespme ' with Wolfram.
At second midfield, Thiel will
have three men with no experi
ence with the exception of Bob
Pawloski who saw limited action
last year. The other two are fresh
men—John Steinmuller and Lu
cien Girard—with no experience
except in high school. With all
the running the midlielders do,
State's second trio could be the
deciding factor in a winning or
mediocre season.
At third midfield, Thiel will
have Eagle, Jim DeVoe and Jack
Espenshade, who broke his . leg in
the State opener at Western Mary
land last year. DeVoe is a sonho-'
more while Espenshade is a
senior.
IM Mat Semis
Start Tonight
The stage was set for ten semi
final intramural wrestling
Matches eight fraternity and
two independent tonight when
two postponed fraternity' bouts
were run off last night.
Semi-final rounds, will start at
8 tonight with the finals starting
at 8 .p.m. Thursday. The finals
were originally scheduled for
Wednesday night but were
switched because of conflicting
Greek Week activities.
In the two bouts last' night,
heavyweight Bob. Sinith; Beta
Theta Pi, scored hiS .third suc
cessive fall with a 1:22 pin of
John Gazlay, AGE.
In the other match, Bob h Bark
ley, Phi. Kappa Psi, 128, 'look.- a
referee'S' decision from Bill Wal
ters, Phi Gamma Delta. The reg
ulation match'ended 3-3.
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